Scottish Elises

Hullo

j2 lot wrote: ↑

Mon Jun 03, 2019 6:25 pm

“ no where to put your cassettes”

ah the days of "mixed tapes".

From Top Gear 1996 presumably.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btcgmHLWaiE

Lovin the 90s sound track.

Aim was to produce 1000 a year selling @ 20K each

Was 2000 before I really got interested in a Lotus ... so this review is hot of the press for me

Bet that sounds marvellous !

Seem to remember years ago Falklands Performance Centre was known as an Elise friendly MOT site it Fife. Never used them myself.


(just noticed Stevoraith post )

That is now looking certain as construction of a new plant to build cars for Lotus and other Geely brands is underway in Wuhan, China. The $1.3 billion plant will be operational in two years and have the capacity to build 150,000 vehicles, including electrified models, Automotive News reported last...

When you want a car Jim you really want a car ! Really admire your commitment to the project. Agree with Campbell, really interesting thread

That is amazing really. I was arguing on PH that short supply is keeping prices high. Maybe that will change (for new models) if Geely ramp up production. I was approx 24K for my Exige S2 n/a back in 2007 with approx 5k miles. There was a duplicate advertise on PH 12 years later at the same price wi...

thats the one ... I clearly dont know my Mclaren models

Anyone know who has that black Mclaren kicking about Broughty Ferry ?

Spotted a couple of times now, gave him a wave from my orange rust bucket .... the chap was somewhat perplexed understandably

Apologies.

Slightly related article:

"The push will be led by Police Scotland's road policing division between Monday 29 April and Sunday 5 May."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-48083190

Plenty of police vehicles around Dundee today stopping cars.

"A new conventionally powered Lotus sports car will follow its new all-electric hypercar to market in 2020" "Lotus’s CEO Phil Popham revealed that a new, conventionally powered sports car would follow in 2020 - and that it would be based on an all-new platform that the company is developing, instead...

Love the colour.

Corranga wrote: ↑

Wed Apr 17, 2019 6:54 pm

The World's First British Electric Hypercar

...from the people that brought you the only one in that colour / spec in Scotland

it never gets old.

Was browsing lotuscars.com and spotted Type 130 media stuff. https://www.engadget.com/2019/04/16/lotus-type-130-british-electric-hypercar/?guccounter=1&guce_referrer_us=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_cs=Qn0jBDvHvEB6g-Na38TxNQ https://youtu.be/B03UPE_GDmQ https://www.pistonheads.com/ne...